Sunday November 1, 2009, 11:45 am
""To get that medal every year tells me every year that I made it I'm healthy," said Andrea Caruso. "It didn't get me.”

In 2004 Caruso was diagnosed with breast cancer. Unable to work through her treatments, she needed help from her sister to pay the mortgage.

"Every time I looked at her check I thought what is a woman doing who's going through what I'm going through who doesn't have a sister who just sent them a check? What are they doing? They’re losing their house. They’re not feeding their kids,” Caruso said.

After her recovery Caruso founded Sustain Inspire Survive, or SIS. Over the past five years the non profit has helped hundreds of breast cancer survivors get by. Women like Sue Rittenhouse of Scottsville, who was unable to pay her heating bills."

Read more at see video at site..

Sunday November 1, 2009, 2:39 pm
Thanks Dee

Sunday November 1, 2009, 4:51 pm
Thanks Dee.

There is a petition on Care2 to try to get some investigation done into whether there is a link between bra-wearing and breast cancer:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/bra-vsbreast-cancer--whats-the-connection

As I understand it, an informal study was done by Singer and Grismaijer some years ago, and the results seemed suggestive of a link between breast cancer and bra-wearing. From the information with the petition, it appears that their study has not been followed up by the industry or anyone else. I would like to learn more about all this. I think Singer himself has signed the petition at the link above.

Monday November 2, 2009, 6:38 am
Hi Monica..No..that was not true..bras do not cause breast cancer..The study of breast cancer and cancers in general is extremely challenging..to say the least..and no one can really point to one cause in particular for cancers..However..there are some clear risk factors for breast cancer which scientists have agreed on after years of studies..

Contrary to the “facts” in chain letters you may have read..(which is where this one started) the risks of things like bras..implants..underarm deodorant have yet to be proved through scientific study..

The bra issue/spam e-mail was triggered in 1995 when two men published a study which they claimed proved a positive link between bras and breast cancer..

Men also get breast cancer as do very young girls..neither wear a bra..